Players assume the role of either James Taylor (first player) or Gary Stewart (second player) in their quest to find Goldman and stop the genetic terror that is threatening the once peaceful town. Ported directly from the Arcade, The House of the Dead 2 is the Dreamcast's first light gun shooter. After hearing the news, James Taylor and the new AMS agent Gary Stewart enter the city with their guns blazing. Using the research, he has re-created the horrific scenes found within the Curien mansion - only this time, an entire town has been overrun by monsters. Curien's plans were realized.įorwarding to the year 2000, we find that Goldman has done just that. After they left, he took the dying scientist's research and swore he would see to it that Dr.
A mysterious man named Goldman had been tracking the two AMS agents all the way to Dr. Curien, they executed the scientist and left the premises.Īs it turns out, this was their big mistake.
Their hellish journey took them through the depths of a mansion full of dead zombies, snakes, bats, and other creepy mutant creatures. In it, players assumed the roles of G and James Taylor, two of the best government agents in the business. This was the premise of the original The House of the Dead (released on both the Sega Saturn and arcade platforms). His research opened a gate to the afterlife, and the dead rose from the grave. Curien, a somewhat deranged scientist obsessed with experimenting on the dead and the living.